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He folded the deed, and replaced it in his pocket with a peaceful smile and closed eyes, murmuring 'I'm much mistaken if the gray mare's the better horse in that stud. He laughed gently, thinking of the captain's formidable and unscrupulous nature, exhibitions of which he could not fail to remember. 'No, no, Miss Dorkie won't give us much trouble.
'I long to have a good talk with you, Dorkie. I have no one on earth to confide in but you. I think, he said, with a little sigh, 'I would never have been so reserved with you, darling, if I had had anything pleasant to confide; but all I have to say is triste and tiresome only a story of difficulties and petty vexations. I want to talk to you, Dorkie. Where shall it be?
A gleam of good humour seemed to come with it, and he said, 'I was just thinking, Dorkie, that for you and me, alone, these great rooms are a little dreary. Suppose we have tea in the tapestry room. 'The Dutch room, Stanley I think so I should like it very well. So, I am certain, would Rachel. I've written to her to come. I hope she will. I expect her at nine. The brougham will be with her.
It was partly a mystification about the election; of course, it will be expensive, but nothing like the other. Are you ill, Dorkie? He might well ask, for she appeared on the point of fainting.
'Now, Dorkie is going to talk her wicked nonsense over again, as if I had never answered it. What about Radie? I do assure you, so far from taking her advice, and thinking her an oracle, as you suppose, I believe her in some respects very little removed from a fool. 'I think her very clever, on the contrary, said Dorcas, enigmatically.
It will be an evil day for you, Dorkie, when you quarrel with me. He looked steadily on her, smiling for a second or two more, and then glided from the conservatory. It was the first time Dorcas had seen Stanley Lake's features in that translated state which indicated the action of his evil nature, and the apparition haunted her for many a day and night.
And she sends it tossing about, from hand to hand, among the servants. I've anticipated her, however, Dorkie. And he took her hand and kissed it. 'She does not know I've told you all myself. Stanley went to the library, and Dorcas to the conservatory, neither very happy, each haunted by an evil augury, and a sense of coming danger.
The Wylders and Brandons have always been contesting the right to these estates, and the same thing may arise again any day. 'But tell me, Stanley, how do you want to apply money? What particular good can it do us in this unpleasant uncertainty? 'Well, Dorkie, believe me I have a sure instinct in matters of this kind. Larkin is plotting treason against us.
She does not say she knows it, but only that she suspects they are in a great fix about money. 'Well, you must know that I was the sole cause of Mark Wylder's leaving the country. 'You, Stanley! 'Yes, I, Dorkie. I believe I thought I was doing a duty; but really I was nearly mad with jealousy, and simply doing my utmost to drive a rival from your presence.
Trust my sure conviction, and promise me, Dorcas, that you will not hesitate to join me in averting, by a sacrifice we shall hardly feel, a really stupendous blow. He kissed her hand, and then her lips, and he said 'You will, Dorkie, I know you will. Give me your promise.
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